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I've spent quite a while reading everything on cron and still have not found an answer that works. One thread says to use the wget - Q - O and another says that wget is disabled. Is there no way to call a php file on another server? I sent a ticket to the help desk and they directed be back to this forum, Not much help there! A simple answer is all I am looking for. I know how to use the crontab but cannot find a list of options that it will accept. All I'm trying to do is to ping a script once a day. Any help would be appreciated.

I was having all kinds of minor problems getting phpauction to update, but thanks to the forum and the help desk, I finally got on the right tract. Only wasted a few days trying to get a script that was meant for a dos server to work here. Oh well, life is for learning. Come to find out, the update file was named cron.php (go figure)! To get the php file to run in cron, I did have to add php in front of the full path. php /home/alltherestofthepath/cron.php That little tidbit was found on one of the other discussions here, so again, thanks for a good forum! Rock Sign

Hi Bruce, No, that was just what it would have been if the the above example was used (it is still auctionupdate). I thought I was in the right place to check the error output, then I realized that it would be going to my webmail, Duh! Anyway, they are there in great numbers and are telling me that the number of parameters are incorrect. Anyone having any ideas as to what parameters they are referring to, please clue me in. I don't have access to a Unix manual and I sure could use a little assist on this one.

Looks like I need some big time help. Is there a way to manually execute the script to see if it is doing what it's supposed to do? Is there a command that would be entered prior to this to make it work? When I enter the path from my browser, all I get is a notepad view of the files contents, which makes me wonder if that is all that is being produced through cron...Ive been working on this so long that my brain is getting fuzzy. I have tried many combinations and the items have not updated (I am not sure if they are even supposed to do so, since they were closed prior to cron being activated, but that doesn't seem likely). I have the scheduler set for every minute of every day, hoping that by the time I try another combination, that it would be completed (if I did it right) when I got there to check it. So far, it's a big fat zero. I can go into MySQL and change the items status to closed and everything looks as it should, if that makes a difference. Assuming my site = junkyarddogs.com cPanel username = junkyar public_html/biggy/cron/update /home/junkyarddogs.com/public_html/biggy/cron/update is what I have entered on the standard cron manager's command line. This is the only one I saw that didn't kick out a ton of 404 errors. Again, I don't know if that is a viable option. Any help will be sincerely appreciated.

Thumbs Up Liz did a fine job on getting the source code compiled. So that leaves me with just one more question (for now, anyway). What code would I use to get the auctionupdate script to run in cron? I tried ./auctionupdate but since nothing seems to come from it, I must assume that's not the way it's done. Kinda thought that if it were incorrect that I would get buried in the error log, guess it hasn't had time to spit them out yet (it's too busy laughing).

Thumbs Up Thanks, that helped a whole bunch! Now to get the source code compiled... I'll then be an almost happy camper . My best guess is to submit a ticket to get it done, then I worry about setting up the cron job. Thanks!

It is WS_FTP, the ls command used to work, either with or without any options (-l, -la) but one day I tried it and it came back as a blank screen, and has been doing so ever since. Again, I thought that it may be a permissions issue so I tried the good ol' 777 on the directory, didn't help though. I've been through the options on the FTP program and don't see anything that has changed so I just figured that the use had been restricted.

Thanks, I just noticed that there is a build.sh script that will compile it, but I can't run it do to the shell restrictions that are in place. Would the help desk be able to assist me in this, since I can't access the shell? Which brings to mind another another minor inconvienence, since I have thousands of small images in my image folder. To remove any of them, I have to view the whole directory, instead of being able to use the ls command (via my FTP program). It once worked but doesn't seem to be doing so now. Is there any possibility of getting limited access to the shell, as that would help a bunch? I have tried the file manager through cPanel, but it is not any faster than the FTP way.

Hi Rock Sign , I paid for a download of the phpauction2.1 software many, many months ago and finally figured out a use for it (it's not another auction). The script for installation was included but the documentation is almost non-existent. One of the team members of osCommerce's developement project had an ad on his site so I contributed to their cause. Anyway, silly me, after I thought I had tried every combination, it dawned on me that I hadn't. I finally did get the script to run, and the db installed. Thanks for taking the time to respond though. I do have another related question, but I don't know if it would be better to ask it on the proper forum or just do an add-on here. Oh well, if it needs to be moved, sorry! Here it is: What would be the code to get a cron job running (auctionupdate.c) so that the closed items are handled correctly? I have several test items floating in never-never land. They show to be closed on the item's template but not in MySQL, and I think all that is needed is to run that c script. Thanks in advance! Dennis

Hi folks! I created the database, the database user, and added the user to the db. -------------------------------------------- djscoll_auction (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES) Connection Strings Perl $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:djscoll_auction:localhost","djscoll_auction","<PASSWORD HERE>"); PHP $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "djscoll_auction", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db ("djscoll_auction"); ----------------------------------------- When I run the script, I get a host of errors (which is better than I was originally getting) Please select : Create new database Use existing database Database host : localhost Database name : djscoll_auction Database username : djscoll_auction Database password : my password Admin E-Mail : my email Site name : djscollectables.com Site URL : full path of my site Since this is just an add-on to my site, I am not sure whether to show the url to the site or to the index.php that will call the auction software (or if it even makes a difference, as I have tried both and neither changes the outcome). I have attached a txt file showing the error output. I thought that it may be a chmod problem, so I did the whole thing as 777, which didn't help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.